To test its
effectiveness, the editors of Gute Fahrt has made a comparative test by
mounting the only tthe left collector, leaving in place the original to the right
in a '57 beetle, then measuring the temperature of air at the defrosting
windshield outlet.

The temperatures were
then displayed on a chart, making possible to highlight the real benefits of
Steely Rapid.

It was evident at the
outset that the Steely Rapid allowed a real improvement in the speed of compartment
heating, the temperature of 50 degrees being reached after only 2.25 km run
against the 4.5 km required with the standard pipes. The maximum heat in both
cases was recorded after about 7.5 km, but in the case of Steely Rapid the temperature
was higher by 15 degrees in the conditions tested, which could at higher engine
rev increase up to 20 degrees.

The Standard is the poor brother of the Beetle that we all know, the Export model.Its history and evolution had developed independently and discreetly, leaving little trace in the literature in the past.Also the literature of today offers very few information on it, and when it does is often superficial, incomplete, if not simply wrong.

But Standard is not only the poor variant of the beetle, it is also an attitude, a way of seeing things, paying attention to everything, by its nature, goes unnoticed because it is not trendy, not glamor, and is not cause of admiration, emulation, desire.